Object number
201805.5.3.3
Title
Canvas Camp Wash Basin
Description
A World War Two canvas wash basin which is part of a set with a camp bath and stand used by Lieutenant Leonard Prime (later Captain) when he landed in Normandy on D-Day +1 and was with him during the advance through North West Europe. It is a light green canvas and the name "L.A.M PRIME" stamped on the inside.
Lieutenant Leonard Prime's company cleared the corpses of the fallen from D-Day, repaired roads, and cleared a minefield for a field bakery.
Date
1944 - 1945
Production period
World War Two, North West Europe, 1944-1945
Material
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